People’s Daily Health Client Lin Jing
On the morning of April 6, at a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic held in Shanghai, Gu Honghui, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Municipal Government and director of the Office of the Municipal Leading Group for Epidemic Prevention and Control, introduced that currently, The epidemic prevention and control in Shanghai is at a critical period. Judging from the statistics that have been collected, the number of newly infected people in the city is still at a high level. From 0:00 to 24:00 on April 5, more than 17,000 new positive infections were reported, and the situation is still grim and complicated.
Why is the epidemic situation in Shanghai so severe? In this regard, Feng Queling, chief physician of the Department of Respiratory Medicine of Peking University People’s Hospital, told the People’s Daily Health Client that this is within the scope of reasonable and objective laws for the development of the virus.
“The new coronavirus is actually an upper respiratory tract infection virus. The characteristics of this virus are that it will constantly mutate, and the more mutated it is, the faster it will spread, but the more lethal it will be. The weaker.” Feng Queling said that the current Shanghai epidemic basically belongs to the Omicron mutant strain, which is completely different from the new coronavirus that first appeared in Wuhan. After many mutations, its toxicity has been significantly weakened. Although this round of epidemic is fierce and the infection area is large, most of them are mild or asymptomatic infections, but the mortality rate is almost zero.
“For asymptomatic or mildly infected people, traditional Chinese medicine alone can achieve good curative effect.” Feng Queling added that the new coronary pneumonia diagnosis and treatment plan first appeared in the third edition of traditional Chinese medicine. The content of the ninth edition so far has been very meticulous in the use of traditional Chinese medicine. For example, if people who are in close contact are accompanied by gastrointestinal discomfort, sticky stool, nausea and vomiting and other dampness symptoms, Huoxiangzhengqi can be used; if there is a sore throat, Dry mouth and thirst, nasal congestion and yellow mucus, cough with yellow phlegm, etc. can use Lianhua Qingwen Capsules, etc.” Based on in vitro experiments and relatively standardized clinical studies, it has been confirmed that it is effective in the treatment of 2019-nCoV infection.
